Trillian has a nice example. Trillian is a instant messenger, combining MSN, ICQ, GTalk, Facebook chat and many others (XMPP/Jabber) into one program. They also have integration of twitter, facebook and LinkedIn status updates… Very handy indeed.

So back to the example.

One of the first times you start, you get this screen:

The intentions are not hidden… The screen titles: “Promote Trillian!” Your users have just to push the buttons where they want to let the world know they are using Trillian. If they like your program, they have no reason no too…

We are evaluating Fogbugz, project tracking software. Because I consider ourself as a startup and we are only with 2 persons, we got it for free from FogBugz.

Our first 4 days are already very convincing. We both started with changing our filters to our own needs. Set up an support@… e-mail account which is automatically checked by FogBugz. We haven’t installed any special plug-ins until now.

The extensive FogBugz API makes you think the sky is the limit. If you can not find the features you need in some existing plug-in, you can write it yourself. Really. This is a very well documented API. Congratulations at the FogCreek team.